LSU's Richard Murdock and Beau Hadskey received a nice package of Plano products, along with their trophies and cash winnings at Toledo Bend.
(Photo by David Brown)

LSU's Richard Murdock and Beau Hadskey received a nice package of Plano products, along with their trophies and cash winnings at Toledo Bend.
(Photo by David Brown)

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Coming off their win at Lake Amistad, Hubbell Allen and Randy Sullivan earned a second place at Toledo Bend for Hardin-Simmons University. (Photo by David Brown)

Coming off their win at Lake Amistad, Hubbell Allen and Randy Sullivan earned a second place at Toledo Bend for Hardin-Simmons University. (Photo by David Brown)

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Stephen F. Austin received a third-place award, compliments of Kyle Turner and Blaze Platt.
(Photo by David Brown)

Stephen F. Austin received a third-place award, compliments of Kyle Turner and Blaze Platt.
(Photo by David Brown)

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LSU wins College Fishing Southern Conference event on Toledo Bend

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16.Feb.2013HEMPHILL, Texas - The LSU team of Richard Murdock of Lawrenceville, Ga., and Beau Hadskey of Baton Rouge, La., won the FLW College Fishing Southern Conference event on Toledo Bend Reservoir Saturday with five bass weighing 20 pounds, 13 ounces. The victory earned the club $2,000 and advanced the team to the FLW College Fishing Southern Conference Invitational tournament.

"Last weekend my partner and I had some really good pre-fishing action going," said Hadskey, a petroleum engineering major. "We were fishing up north and catching them pretty good. But today there were waves out there that were four-feet tall. We chose to stay down on the south end of the lake where it was calmer and ended up doing all of our fishing between Mill Creek Bay and Six Mile Bay.

"We caught all of our fish in six-feet of water or less today," Hadskey continued. "It wasn't necessarily a grass bite, but we were mainly focusing on the side of points. It really didn't matter where we were on the lake. We were catching them in the main lake and back in the coves. The key to our success was fishing the shallow areas along the sides of points. We didn't catch many fish out on the points themselves, but once we got along the sides, we started getting bites.

"We were swimming a jig and using a lipless crankbait," Hadskey went on to say. "We looked for water that was a little bit colored because we weren't getting as many bites in the clear water. The main baits that were producing for us were brightly colored chartreuse and crawfish patterns."

This is Hadskey's first brush with FLW College Fishing success. His partner, Richard Murdock, a natural resources ecology management major, is a little more experienced. He has been fishing with FLW College Fishing since 2011 and competed in the National Championship last year at Lake Murray and placed 16th.

The top 15 teams that advanced to the Southern Conference Invitational tournament are:

Three regular-season qualifying events are held in each conference - Central, Northern, Southeastern, Texas and Western. The top 15 teams from each qualifying tournament will advance to one of five two-day FLW College Fishing Conference Invitational tournaments, where the first-place team wins $4,000 for their club. The top 10 teams from each Conference Invitational advance to the 2014 FLW College Fishing National Championship.

College Fishing is free to enter. All participants must be registered, full-time undergraduate students at a four-year college or university and members of a fishing club recognized by their college or university.

The next FLW College Southern Conference qualifying tournament is scheduled for Sept. 22 at Lake Hamilton in Hot Springs, Ark., and is hosted by the Hot Springs Convention & Visitors Bureau.

FLW is the industry's premier tournament-fishing organization, providing anglers of all skill levels the opportunity to compete for millions in prize money nationwide in 2013 over the course of 220 tournaments across five tournament circuits, four of which provide an avenue to the sport's richest payday and most coveted championship trophy - the Forrest Wood Cup. FLW tournament fishing can be seen on the Emmy-nominated "FLW" television show and is broadcast to more than 559 million households worldwide, making it the most widely distributed weekly outdoors-sports television show in the world. FLW is committed to providing a lifestyle experience that is the "Best in Fishing, On and Off the Water." For more information about FLW visit FLWOutdoors.com and look for FLW on Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest and YouTube.